This elegant red wine from Chateau Vrai Caillou is from Bordeaux. This wine is a good buy for our newest arrivals for just php 950.

The 2012 Chateau Vrai Caillou is one of the many selections of fine vintage wines from Bordeaux that are now available at Clark Wine Center and other wine outlets of Yats Wine Cellars in Manila. 

History: The Vrai Caillou estate has belonged to the Pommier family since 1863. Passed down through the generations, it has been handed over from father to son and then from father to daughter. Vrai Caillou wines are the fruit of a long family tradition which has developed alongside the estate’s endless rows of vines. Even though the Féret guide, Bordeaux’s acclaimed wine guide, refers to the Pommier estate as early as 1863, the surrounding land was primarily used for mixed crop farming and vines were just simply the angel’s share. It was Georges Pommier, great-grandfather of Christel de Meillac, who, in 1920 decided to concentrate his efforts on wine growing. (from Ch. Vrai Caillou)
This wine has recently been awarded the French Gold Medal by the Ministry of Agriculture for the quality of their wines.

Climate and Viticulture: Located in the middle area of Bordeaux located between two rivers, the Garonne, and the Dordogne. This area is further from the sea and enjoys a more continental climate. The rivers bring in warming air currents that protect the old vines from frosts. The major variety is Merlot but small plots can plant Cabernet Sauvignon as well. Although the blend makes up mostly Merlot, Cabernet Sauvifnon and Cabernet Franc provides the bulk of its flavors.

Tasting notes: This Bordeaux wine is pretty fruit forward with ripe tannins that are soft on the palate. Blackcurrant flavors push through with a blackberry note to it. It has a medium body that makes it very food friendly. Slight toastiness from oak ageing rounds it up with a capsicum finish on the palate.

Price for the 2012 Chateau Vrai Caillou is php950 a bottle, available at Clark Wine Center and other wine outlets of Yats Wine Cellars in Manila.

Stock is very limited, so wine shoppers who have a penchant for excellent white wine at attractive prices are well advised to grab a few bottles while stock lasts.

Famous labels and expensive brands of fine wines are available everywhere in Manila but there is only one wine supplier in the Philippines that offers vintages wines from France, Italy and Spain dating back several decades.

Yats Wine Cellars is known among Asian wine lovers as a good source for well-priced vintage wines from all the major wine regions of the world. What makes shopping at Yats a lot of fun is the fact that we offer not only the familiar labels and expensive trophy wines but also lesser known but really interesting vintage wines of excellent value sought after by connoisseurs and beginners alike.

In addition to wines from recent stellar vintages, this wine importer in the Philippines offers a very large selection of 20- to 40-year-old matured bottles that are sought after by connoisseurs and seasoned wine drinkers in Asia. Some of these wines are available through boutique wine shops in Ortigas and Fort Global City in Manila. Others can be ordered from their wine shops in Manila and Pampanga or the main sales office in Ortigas for delivery within Metro Manila or shipped to other parts of the Philippines.

Yats Wine Cellars is a wine distributor in the Philippines that caters to the growing population of discerning wine lovers. Wine shoppers looking for good wine shops where they can buy wine in Manila, Pampanga, Cebu or other major cities in Philippines are pleased to find a large selection of vintage wines and lesser-known labels and appellations also.

The vintage wines of Yats Wine Cellars are also purchased as gifts for special friends and loved ones. One popular birthday gift idea is a “birth year wine”, a wine with a vintage year same as the year of birth of the recipient. Yats Wine Cellars carries wines dating back 100 years and offers advice on what types of wines from what regions are best for each year in the past. Special vintage cards covering older vintages are also available.

Yats Wine Cellars is one of the wine suppliers that devote a great deal of attention and effort to wine education aimed at enabling wine lovers to enhance their knowledge of wine as well as to develop a discerning palate for fine wines. To that end this leading wine supplier in Philippines frequently hold public wine events that are not sponsored by wine producers and not intended to promote a certain brand.

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Yats Wine Cellars
Manila Sales Office
3003C East Tower, Phil Stock Exchange Center,
Exchange Road, Ortigas Center, Pasig,
Metro Manila, Philippines 1605
Tel: (632) 637-5019 0917-520-4393 0926-686-5955
Ask for Rea or Chay

Wine Shop, Cellars and Warehouse in Pampanga
Clark Wine Center

Bldg 6460 Clark Observatory Building
Manuel A. Roxas Highway corner A Bonifacio Ave,
Clark Field, Clark Air Base,
Clark Freeport Zone, Pampanga, Philippines 2023

Tel: 0917-826-8790 (045) 599-5600 0922-870-5173
Ask for Odie

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Yats Wine Cellars started opening small boutique-sized convenience wine shops in major locations of Manila. Through these wine outlets in Manila, Yats Wine Cellars hope to bring interesting selections of fine vintage wines to wine lovers in Manila at attractive prices.

Please click here for information about the wine outlet shops of Yats Wine Cellars in Manila and Pampanga, Philippines.

Although there are plenty of good restaurants in Manila as well as a growing number of gastro pubs mostly in the Fort Bonifacio Global city and Makati areas, food and wine lovers travel out of town north of Manila to wine and dine in Clark Air Base which is now called Clark Freeport Zone of Pampanga.

Ranked as the top restaurant in Pampanga, Yats Restaurant and Wine Lounge not only offers good food, excellent wine selection and attentive service, it is also one of the restaurants in Pampanga that is great for group dinners, business entertaining and celebrating birthdays and anniversaries also. Semi-private and private rooms are available for groups of 5 to 50 here in this fine dining restaurant in Clark.

Yats Restaurant is one of the restaurants in Clark Air Base that is well known to residents of Angeles City, Subic, Manila, Tarlac and Clark Philippines as a good place to eat in Pampanga. Recently, event organizers and corporate planning departments have discovered that this famous restaurant in Clark Pampanga is also a very good venue for group dinners and corporate functions, not to mention parties and celebrations for other special occasions outside of Manila in North Luzon.

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Private dinners can be accommodated in this famous restaurant located in Mimosa, at the heart of Pampanga Clark Freeport. Private rooms suitable for 4 to 24 can be reserved in advance at this impressive restaurant in Pampanga for company and personal functions and events in Clark. This fine dining restaurant in Pampanga is a very popular event venue for small wedding receptions, social events, company board meetings and annual parties. Even companies from Manila travel to Pampanga to hold their functions and events in this well known fine dining restaurant in Pampanga.

Besides good and impressive restaurants to wine and dine near Manila, Subic or in Angeles City Pampanga, Clark Philippines, those requiring assistance for hotel and resort bookings in Clark, Pampanga, Philippines may log on to http://www.HotelClarkPhilippines.com for more information and reservations.

Clark Pampanga is not only frequently visited for its good restaurants and fine dining establishments, it is also a highly recommended wedding destination especially for couples looking for outdoor garden reception venues and beach weddings. For assistance and information on wedding venues and how to organize a wedding reception, log on to http://www.PhilippinesWeddingVenue.com

Those visitors who plan to relax and unwind in Angeles City, Subic, Pampanga, Clark Philippines might make an effort to book a room at the famous beach and lake resort Clearwater Resort and Country Club. This famous hotel in Clark Pampanga is frequently visited by families with children looking for a good place in Clark to see, a good holiday destination for the family to relax and unwind in the beautiful outdoor facilities. For more information, log on to www.ClearwaterPhilippines.com

For information about working, living, doing business or finding a job in the Philippines, log on to http://www.yilp.com

Have a safe and pleasant trip to Clark Philippines.

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